Publications
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Newsletters: a weekly summary of news about Bitcoin and LN development.
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Blog posts: Occasional updates and reference material from the Optech team.
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Podcast Episodes: Audio discussions of our newsletters.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #358
This week’s newsletter describes how the selfish mining danger threshold can be calculated, summarizes an idea about preventing filtering of high feerate transactions, seeks feedback about a proposed change to BIP390
musig()descriptors, and announces a new library for encrypting descriptors. Also included are our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #357 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jose SK, Clara Shikhelman, Vojtěch Strnad, Robin Linus, and Dan Gould to discuss Newsletter #357.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #357
This week’s newsletter shares an analysis about syncing full nodes without old witnesses. Also included are our regular sections with descriptions of discussions about changing consensus, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #356 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Carla Kirk-Cohen, Joost Jager, and Elias Rohrer to discuss Newsletter #356.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #356
This week’s newsletter summarizes a discussion about the possible effects of attributable failures on LN privacy. Also included are our regular sections with selected questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #355 Recap Podcast
Dave Harding is joined by Alex Myers and Rodolfo Novak to discuss Newsletter #355.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #355
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections describing changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #354 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Eugene Siegel, Chris Stewart, Bram Cohen, and Robin Linus to discuss Newsletter #354.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #354
This week’s newsletter describes a fixed vulnerability affecting old versions of Bitcoin Core. Also included are our regular sections summarizing recent discussions about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #353 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ruben Somsen, Salvatore Ingala, and Stéphan Vuylsteke to discuss Newsletter #353.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #353
This week’s newsletter describes a recently discovered theoretical consensus failure vulnerability and links to a proposal to avoid reuse of BIP32 wallet paths. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable code changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #352 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Sjors Provoost discuss Newsletter #352.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #352
This week’s newsletter links to comparisons between different cluster linearization techniques and briefly summarizes discussion about increasing or removing Bitcoin Core’s
OP_RETURNsize limit. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #351 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Salvatore Ingala to discuss Newsletter #351.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #351
This week’s newsletter announces a new aggregate signature protocol compatible with secp256k1 and describes a standardized backup scheme for wallet descriptors. Also included are our regular sections summarizing recent Bitcoin Stack Exchange questions and answers, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #350 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Niklas Gögge to discuss Newsletter #350.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #350
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. Also included is a correction to some details from our story last week about SwiftSync.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #349 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, Ruben Somsen, and Abubakar Sadiq Ismail to discuss Newsletter #349.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #349
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal for speeding up Bitcoin Core initial block download, with a proof-of-concept implementation that shows a roughly 5x speed up compared to Bitcoin Core’s defaults. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #348 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, Gregory Sanders, and Salvatore Ingala to discuss Newsletter #348.
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